Ace-Garageguy

Note the tenor of the responses.

My old-man-phone carrier did just that, though getting the new one to function reliably and getting their billing in line with what I'd actually paid-in took some doing.

Agreed. I buy all my current kits, styrene, and most tools and paint from what passes for a LHS...HobbyTown. But like everyone else, they're suffering from the "supply chain" baloney. Finding styrene there in sizes I need has gone from being an almost certainty to entirely hit-or-miss. Balsa and other woods are almost nonexistent, and some stuff seems to be gone forever.

Very, very nice. I've acquired several 917 short-tails in styrene, with the intent of converting one to this configuration. Maybe I should save myself some grief and hunt down one of these.

Did you know that IQ is declining at an alarming rate globally?

Yeah, well, Flintstone could have easily corrected the hood length issue. It's well known in the community by people who have an eye for proportion, and I've previously posted the dimensions taken from real '34 Fords that I've had in the shop. I will never understand why it seems to be so difficult to measure accurately and divide by whatever scale, but life is strange and logic is increasingly elusive.

I'd say the first impression of the finished product was certainly worth the effort. Looks better than any I've seen so far.

Your feel for surfaces, color, and textures always amazes and inspires me. You have a remarkable ability to represent reality very believably, and you do it consistently. If there was ever anyone who should write a book on the subject, you're the guy.

If you mean this one, it appears to be based on the Revellogram snapper with the too-short hood (length, not height). There's also a lakester version that's much better looking, but thick, and not particularly accurate either, below.

Nice little banger. Looks like it was a fun build.

Cages and bars these days are usually 1 5/8"or 1 3/4", depending on class and speed. 1 3/4" is 1.75". Divided by 25, that gives you .070". I notice the difference using .080", but it looks pretty good usually...and is usually what I use too. But I think anything bigger looks wrong.

Looking good. Definitely going to be worth the effort.

Man, do I love that thing. Nice.

Indeed. Squint and you can see hints of the 2005-2008 Chrysler Crossfire coupe.

Another gorgeous model of a significant historic race car.

All my other PB-hosted (paid account) photos work just fine, usually. The only ones that disappeared were in posts I edited on this forum. How can a text-edit on this site trigger a deletion on this site of the web addresses of a buncha PB-hosted pictures? (They're all still on PB, by the way, and someday I might, just might, get around to replacing them here.) I'm so confused.

What scale are you working in? What kind of car (drag racing, road racing, etc.) ? What era?

That's sad. Still, it can be a wreck behind a period wrecker, or the focus of a bottom-of-a-ravine diorama. Shame to waste it.

That is actually a valid idea. Eons ago at the dawn of time, I discovered that air can get under the bodywork of a slot car and lift it, making it leave the track...just exactly as years later I saw Mark Donohue fly the Can Am Porsche at Road Atlanta

Maybe just for fun? Or maybe, if somebody is interested in science and engineering, to get a visual idea of the difference in airflow over a barn-door design like a '32 Ford as opposed to a late model Lambo? Granted data developed in 1/24 - 1/25 scale doesn't translate to full size, but turbulence around chunky objects can be visualized and perhaps better understood. What I don't understand is the need to 3D print any of it. The side walls are flat, and cheap high-flow fans in their own housings are plentiful.

I always wondered how the AMT kit built up. Good stuff here.

Sorry to hear of his difficulties. I've watched several old friends slowly fade away, and it's heartbreaking, as you say. I've read a lot on the subject, as I'm pretty ancient myself and hope to avoid a similar decline. What I've found is that physical activity and trying to keep learning new things seem to be linked with lessening the effects. Of course, to derive any benefits, you have to be fit enough physically, and have to have the interest in learning on a daily basis. I wish both of you all the best possible.

Very nice, clean clean, clean.

Great looking model of an important car. I love to see good models of early competition Porsches, when the marque was establishing itself as a leading sports car builder. Who wooda thunk they'd evolve into a manufacturer of poseur luxo rides and bloated SUVs?

It's still possible to build a very nice fiberglass replica for reasonable money. If you build it on an IRS VW pan, a replica can out-handle a real one, and if you use a built VW engine putting out more than 130HP, it can out-run a real one.